Mumbai Indians will lock horns against arch-rivals Chennai Super Kings at their home ground of Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on Saturday. Just like the other IPL teams, Mumbai will play their first home IPL game in four years’ time.
The five-time champions got off to a losing start against RCB whereas CSK has won one match and lost one as well. We look at the current form, head-to-head, players to look out for, and squads of both teams in our match preview.
Last two matches for CSK: W L
Ruturaj Gaikwad has been Chennai’s best batter at the top of the order but they will want more from their middle order. Devon Conway also played a handy knock in the previous game but their fast bowling unit is their kryptonite. However, Moeen Ali and Mitchell Santner were right on the money against LSG.
Last match for MI: Loss against RCB.
Mumbai Indians could not get going in their batting innings against Royal Challengers Bangalore. Tilak Varma scored a gutsy knock of 84 runs but the rest of the batters failed to contribute. MI also don’t have a gun spinner in their squad and they will want Piyush Chawla to take onus.
Head to Head: Matches: 36, Won by MI: 21, Won by CSK: 15.
Mumbai Indians have the wood on Chennai Super Kings in the H2H battle.
Players to look out for: Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, Moeen Ali, Ben Stokes, MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, and Deepak Chahar will be the key players for CSK.
Tim David, Rohit Sharma, Jofra Archer, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Cameron Green, and Jason Behrendorff will be the key players for MI.
MI Squad for IPL 2023:
Wicketkeepers: Ishan Kishan, Tristan Stubbs (SA), Vishnu Vinod.
Batters: Rohit Sharma, Tim David (AUS), Ramandeep Singh, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Dewald Brevis (SA).
All-rounders: Nehal Wadhera, Shams Mulani, Duan Jansen (SA), Cameron Green (AUS).
Bowlers: Jofra Archer (ENG), Arshad Khan, Jason Behrendorff (AUS), Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal, Hrithik Shokeen, Arjun Tendulkar, Raghav Goyal, Piyush Chawla.
CSK IPL 2023 Squad:
Wicketkeepers: MS Dhoni, Devon Conway (NZ).
Batters: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, Subhranshu Senapati, Shaik Rasheed, Ajinkya Rahane.
All-rounders: Moeen Ali (ENG), Shivam Dube, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Ravindra Jadeja, Dwaine Pretorius (SA), Mitchell Santner (NZ), Ben Stokes (ENG), Ajay Mandal, Bhagath Varma, Nishant Sindhu.
Bowlers: Sisanda Magala, Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Mukesh Choudhary, Matheesha Pathirana (SL), Simarjeet Singh, Prashant Solanki, Maheesh Theekshana (SL).
